VOTER EDUCATION: EC register has 18.1 million

📌 Total number of voters Uganda elections 2021
✅ Number of Voters: 18,103,603
✅ Number of Polling Stations:34,684

📌 Districts with highest populations
➡ Kampala 1,280,409
➡ Wakiso 1,154,857
➡ Kasese 384,058
➡ Mukono 355,275
➡ Ntungamo 268,541
➡ Tororo 268,434
➡ Luwero 257,115
➡ Kamuli 236,917
➡ Buikwe 235,640
➡ Isingiro 233,099

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | There are 18,103,603 voters and 34,684 polling satations that will participate in the January 14, 2021 Uganda Presidential and Parliamentary elections, the Electoral Commission has confirmed. This voter number is up by 3 million from the last election in 2016.

The districts with the highest voter population remain in central Uganda – that is Kampala and Wakiso at 1 million plus, Mukono at over 300,000 and Luwero over 250,000.

Tororo, Kasese, Ntungamo,  Kamuli and Buikwe are also in the top 10.

Uganda goes into elections starting tomorrow with elections of councillors, then MPS and President on January 14, to be followed by polls at various levels, including the army.

The 2016 elections had 15,277,198 registered voters, and ended with a turnout of 67.61%.

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2016 RESULTS

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📌 Uganda 🇺🇬 Election DATES 2021
1⃣  Jan 11,2021 ➡ Councillors older persons
2⃣  Jan 11,2021 ➡ Councillors PWDs
3⃣  Jan 11,2021 ➡ Youth Reps
4⃣  Jan 12,2021 ➡ Councillors older persons
5⃣  Jan 12,2021 ➡ Councillors PWDs
6⃣  Jan 12,2021 ➡ Councillors Youth
7⃣  Jan 14,2021 ➡ Elections of President and MPs
8⃣  Jan 17-18,2021 ➡ National Conference Older persons
9⃣  Jan 17-18,2021 ➡ National Conference PWDs
🔟  Jan 17-18,2021 ➡ National Conference Workers
1⃣ 1⃣  Jan 20,2021 ➡ Mayors, District Chairpersons
1⃣ 2⃣  Jan 21-22,2021 ➡ National Conference Female Youth
1⃣ 3⃣  Jan 25,2021 ➡ Municipality & City Divisions chairs
1⃣ 4⃣  Jan 27,2021 ➡ Councillors older persons District
1⃣ 5⃣  Jan 27,2021 ➡ Councillors PWDs District
1⃣ 6⃣  Jan 27,2021 ➡ Councillors Youth District
1⃣ 7⃣  Jan 27,2021 ➡ Worker Reps to District LG Councils
1⃣ 8⃣  Jan 29,2021 ➡ Election of UPDF MPs
1⃣ 9⃣  Jan 13 & Feb 1,2021 ➡ Regional Conferences Youth MPs
2⃣ 0⃣  Feb 3,2021 ➡ Sub-county/town/municipal Division chairs

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UGANDA Voter Count by District 2021 by The Independent Magazine on Scribd

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UGANDA Voter Count by Polling Stations 2021 by jadwongscribd on Scribd

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📌 Election offences and penalties

✳ Voting on behalf of another person (living or dead) ▶ Prison 5 years
✳ Preventing a person from voting  ▶ Fine sh100,000
✳ Voting more than once is an offence and on conviction ▶ Fine sh500,000
✳ Refusing to have one’s fingers to be inspected ▶ Fine sh100,000
✳ Election official wrongly counting vote ▶  Fine sh500,000

Election Officials should note the following:

▶ When an Election Officer, an Agent or Observer, at any polling station, assists any voter with a disability, he/she commits an offence.
▶ Failure by the Presiding Officer to submit voting results is an offence and the offender is liable on conviction to a fine not exceeding 100,000/= (One hundred thousand shillings) or imprisonment not exceeding one year or both.
▶ Preventing a person from voting is an offence and anyone who commits the offence of obstruction is liable to a fine of 200,000/= (Two hundred thousand shillings) or imprisonment for two years.
▶ Any Election Officer who knowingly counts a ballot paper in favor of the candidate for whom it was not cast, commits an offence. On conviction a person is liable to a fine not exceeding 500,000/= (Five hundred thousand shillings) or imprisonment not exceeding five years or both.

Offences by stakeholders

▶ Pretending to have a disability is an offence and any person who commits
this offence is liable to a fine not exceeding l00,000/= (One hundred
thousand shillings) or imprisonment not exceeding two years or both.
▶ Assisting a voter without authority is an offence and the offender will
on conviction be liable to a fine not exceeding 200,000/= (Two hundred
thousand shillings) or two years imprisonment or both.
▶ Voting more than once is an offence and on conviction a person is liable
to a fine not exceeding 500,000/= (Five hundred thousand shillings) or to
imprisonment not exceeding five years or both.

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▶ Refusing to have one’s fingers to be inspected is an offence and the offender
is liable on conviction to a fine not exceeding 200,000/ (Two hundred thousand shillings) or to a term of imprisonment not exceeding two years or both.
▶ Voting on behalf of another person (living or dead) is an offence and on
conviction one is liable to imprisonment of five years (without option of a
fine).
▶ Selling alcohol within four hundred metres of any polling station is an
offence and any person who commits this offence is liable on conviction
to a fine not exceeding 200,000/= (Two hundred thousand shillings) or
imprisonment not exceeding twelve months or both.
▶ Any person who arms himself or herself during any part of polling day
with any arms or ammunition without lawful authority commits an offence
and shall on conviction be liable to a fine not exceeding 200,000/= (Two
hundred thousand shillings) or imprisonment not exceeding two years or
both.
▶ Preventing a person from voting is an offence and anyone who commits
the offence of obstruction is liable to a fine of 200,000/= (Two hundred
thousand shillings) or imprisonment for two years.

 VOTER EDUCATION HANDBOOK (click HERE to read online)

 The PRESIDENTIAL ELECTIONS ACT, 2005 (click HERE to read online)

No.	Portrait	Name (Birth–Death)	Elected	Term of office			Political party	Prime minister(s)
				Took office	Left office	Time in office
1		Edward Mutesa (1924–1969)	1963	9 October 1963	2 March 1966 (deposed.)	2 years, 144 days	Kabaka Yekka	Obote
2		Milton Obote (1925–2005)	—	2 March 1966	15 April 1966	44 days	Uganda People’s Congress	Himself
				15 April 1966	25 January 1971 (deposed.)	4 years, 285 days		Position abolished

No.	Portrait	Name (Birth–Death)	Term of office			Military	Prime minister(s)
			Took office	Left office	Time in office
3		Idi Amin (1925–2003)	25 January 1971	11 April 1979 (deposed.)	8 years, 76 days	Ugandan Armed Forces	Position abolished

No.	Portrait	Name (Birth–Death)	Elected	Term of office			Political party	Prime minister(s)
				Took office	Left office	Time in office
4		Yusuf Lule (1912–1985)	—	13 April 1979	20 June 1979 (deposed.)	68 days	Independent (UNLF)	Position abolished
5		Godfrey Binaisa (1920–2010)	—	20 June 1979	12 May 1980 (deposed.)	327 days	Uganda People’s Congress (UNLF)
6		Paulo Muwanga (1921–1991)	—	12 May 1980	22 May 1980 (resigned.)	10 days	Uganda People’s Congress (UNLF)
—		Presidential Commission	—	22 May 1980	15 December 1980	207 days	—
(2)		Milton Obote (1925–2005)	1980	17 December 1980	27 July 1985 (deposed.)	4 years, 222 days	Uganda People’s Congress	Allimadi

No.	Portrait	Name (Birth–Death)	Term of office			Military	Prime minister(s)
			Took office	Left office	Time in office
7		General Bazilio Olara-Okello (1929–1990)	27 July 1985	29 July 1985 (resigned.)	2 days	Ugandan Armed Forces	Position vacant
8		General Tito Okello (1914–1996)	29 July 1985	26 January 1986 (deposed.)	181 days	Ugandan Armed Forces	Muwanga Waligo

No.	Portrait	Name (Birth–Death)	Elected	Term of office			Political party	Prime minister(s)
				Took office	Left office	Time in office
9		Yoweri Museveni (1944–)	1996 2001 2006 2011 2016	26 January 1986	Incumbent	34 years, 341 days	National Resistance Movement	Kisekka Adyebo Musoke Nsibambi Mbabazi Rugunda

No.	Portrait	Name (Birth–Death)	Term of office			Political party	Head(s) of state
			Took office	Left office	Time in office
1		Milton Obote (1925–2005)	9 October 1962	15 April 1966	3 years, 188 days	Uganda People’s Congress	Elizabeth II Mutesa Himself
Post abolished (15 April 1966 – 18 December 1980)
2		Otema Allimadi (1929–2001)	18 December 1980	27 July 1985 (deposed.)	4 years, 221 days	Uganda People’s Congress	Obote
3		Paulo Muwanga (1921–1991)	1 August 1985	25 August 1985	24 days	Independent	Okello
4		Abraham Waligo (1928–2000)	25 August 1985	26 January 1986 (deposed.)	154 days	Independent	Okello
5		Samson Kisekka (1912–1999)	30 January 1986	22 January 1991	4 years, 357 days	National Resistance Movement	Museveni
6		George Cosmas Adyebo (1947–2000)	22 January 1991	18 November 1994	3 years, 300 days	National Resistance Movement	Museveni
7		Kintu Musoke (1938–)	18 November 1994	5 April 1999	4 years, 138 days	National Resistance Movement	Museveni
8		Apolo Nsibambi (1940–2019)	5 April 1999	24 May 2011	12 years, 49 days	National Resistance Movement	Museveni
9		Amama Mbabazi (1949–)	24 May 2011	18 September 2014	3 years, 117 days	National Resistance Movement	Museveni
10		Ruhakana Rugunda (1947–)	18 September 2014	Incumbent	6 years, 109 days	National Resistance Movement	Museveni